Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-02-06
y y MINERS.

A fOurteen-ioot seam of coal has been
struck ut Bartlesvill, Indian Territory.
The Keystone mine, ut Elk Lick, Pa,
has started at 10 cents per ton, the old
price.
The trouble at the Waverly Coal Co.'S
mines has been settled.
Three miners were severely burned by
IN explosion of black damp ut the Midway
mines last Monday.
The price of coke has been advanced to
81 for furnaces, $2.15 for dealers, and $3.50
for foundries.
All the miners in the vicinity of Elk
Lick, Pa, are out against y reduction from
10 to 26 cents.
The men of MOryland are jubilant over
the report that Georges Creek has promiS-
ed an advance in the price of mining.
BOre-hOles have been put down in the
Wyoming field of this State that have
shown an aggregate thickness Of l2O feet
OF coal.
The Conncllsyille Coke and Iron Com
pany will next summer build 800 new
ovens and erect about 100 houses for their
men.
A stratum of coal about fifteen feet
thick has been discovered some sixteen
miles east of Oxford, Mass. Ii is supposed
to be i vein of coal extending from the
coal fields of Alabama.
At Stellarton, Nova, Scotia, the mana
gers have e]ndeayOred TO reduce wages 20
cents per ton. This was resisted by the
wnrkmcn in the district and q compromise
has been effected.
There is q strike for an advance ut Ca
rey's coal mine, Jackson, Mich. The
earnings Of the men there were not over -
cents per day, and that had to be taken
ont at the pluck-me store.
The Kansas and Texas Coal Company is
opening new coal mines mt lIackett City,
Ark, to which point an extension of the
st. Louis and San Francisco railroad is
building.
Twelve hundred miners in the employ of
the BloSsburg Coal Company, at Arnot,
this State, struck Saturday To enforce the
recognition of two acknowledgment chosen
by themselves.
Tweuty-eight law suits entered by the
coal miners of Pine township, Mercer
county, Pa, against Filler, Sutlitf x Co,
coal operators of Sharon, will he tried ut 4
special session of court to be held in Mer-
Ger. The defendants art charged with Tx
iug their scales 80 rs To take unfair all
vantage Of their workmeR rs TO the weight
OF coal mined.
K. J.. Martin, superintendent of the
TN,Sr.h,n.a yNnrlg f.nuSal thn arrlSt nI the
local executive committee OF the AmalgI-
mated. last week. The charge is conspira-
cy, based on a threat To strike because OF
the employment OF nOu-uniOn men. The
defendants were held To bail in a nominal
sun. Judge Campbell has been retained
to defend them AC0naeHSriHc COTjcr.
The ~folllOWin" mining companies have
lately been chartered in Kansas To probe
for coal The ChickaSkia RIVER Mining
Company of Downs; capital stock, S2O,O OO.
The Star Mining Company OF Kingman;
capital stock, $25, 600. The Fulton Coal
Company of Fulton Bourbon Co, with
eleven directors, and & capital Of $4,000.
The Penn-Mobile Coal Company has
purchased the Alabama and Mississippi
coal mines, Alabama, and will begin the
erection OfeOke ovens, etc, and the opera
ton Of q II, 900 acre tract of coal land ON a
large scale In the Warrior coal field. Some
Pennsylvania capitalists, among them Cen
evaI Coulter and Hon. Geo. Hun, are inter
ested i'm this venture.
DIR. HuStetter and Mr.. Ralph Bagalcy
have completed their arrangements to
begin work in the early spring on LEGO
coke ovens in the Mt. Pleasant, Pa, dis
trict. These gentlemen own. their loo
I acres Of coal land, in Mt. Pleasant tOwan-
ship, and the erection of these ovens IL
only the beginning Of the vast improve
mcnt which they intend To make.
about 5000, 600 of coal will 20 down
the ohio from PittSburg on the present
rise IN our rivers.
Chctopa, Kansas, is surrounded on all
sides by coal mines, Sonc Of which are not
a half mile distant.
The strike is over ut Alum Cave, Indiana,
the men withdrawing their demand for the
reinstatement of one ct their discharged
brethren.
by the double system now in operation
at the Standard mines, more Goa! * being
taken from the slope than ut any time IN
its history. Last week n day the out
put was over 900 wagons, while the average
Tor the week wits over u wagons daily.
There are now 30 ovens in blast at this
/ plant.-W. Pleasant Journal.
The output OF the Canon City Coal Com
pluy at their Canon City. Williamsburg
and ROckvale collierieS, in Colorado, az
grcgated Tor the month of December 3D.
ug9 Is tons of coal. ThiS compauy's coal
product is all shipped to Kansas, except
what is consumed 1T Pueblo, and 1T Is
coming into prominence iii the Kansas
CITY market rs one OF the finest coal seen
there. This is said To be the greatest ont
put for any month since this company Was
oryanized.-Surdri'S Trnds Journal.
The Miners National Assembly, which
/ embraces the whole III the United States,
l. divided into eleven subdivisions, aS fol-
lows: No. !, embracing all the anthracite
region OF Pennsylvania; No. !, Maryland,
Virginia and that portion OF Pennsylvania
known a. the Snow Shoe; No. ;, the Clear
field region of PENNSYLVANIA and all the
low grade division; No. /, all the coke
region; No. ;, all the M~onOngahela,
| Allegheny, Kanawha and Ohio river mines;
No. q, Ohio and all that portion Of Western
Pennsylvania shipping coal by rail; No. q,
Indiana and Northern Illinois; No. :.
Southern Illinois and that section OF Mis-
souri, shipping coal to st. Louis; No. .,
+ Kentucky and that part of western West
Virginia shipping to Cincinnati by rail;
No. 10, Alabama and Tennessee; No. IL,
Kansas, Indian Territory and that section
of Missouri not shipping to St Louis.
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